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An easy 9th century chess puzzle! Can you solve it?
Shatranj is an ancient chess variant, popular over a thousand years ago.
You have probably heard of the Knight's Tour, but did you ever hear about the Elephant's Tour?
Each Elephant has 10 moves in which to capture 7 pieces each and to return to his starting position.
Are you able to achieve complete elephant dominance, or are you a simple gentle beast?
In case you missed them, here are some of my previous shatranj videos...
Two full games from the 920s:
https://rumble.com/v185zcm-the-year-920-al-suli-vs-al-lajlaj.html
https://rumble.com/v18nkmy-second-oldest-game-al-suli-vs-caliph-al-muqtadir-920s.html
And the story of Dilaram:
https://rumble.com/v1n86tf-840-ad-the-oldest-chess-puzzle.html
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